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CFP: Love Potions in Harry Potter (1/2/06; LUMOS, 7/27/06-7/30/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:21pm
Melissa D. Aaron

Panel or a roundtable on love potions in Harry Potter, especially on
their importance in *Half Blood Prince.* Short presentations sought
on different aspects of Love Potions. Examples might be Love Potion
Ethics, Love Potion Mechanics, how love potions in HP relate to
"real" historical/cultural love spells and potions, and Love Potions
and the fandom (aka "shipping.")

Email me by January 2nd if you are interested.

Some information from the Lumos website:

CFP: Spanish Golden Age and the Small College (3/15/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:21pm
Michael Joy

I invite submissions for a panel I am proposing for the 2006 MLA
conference in Philadelphia. The topic is "The Spanish Golden Age and
the Small College." The panel will center on life as the Golden Age
specialist (broadly defined to include both medievalists and
Renaissance specialists) at a smaller college or university: attracting
students, curricular and extracurricular innovations, connections
between research and teaching, and other topics of interest to the
Golden Age community. 250-word abstracts are due by March 15, 2006 to
the following address: Michael W. Joy, Department of Modern Foreign
Languages, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC 29325. E-mail address
for submissions: mjoy_at_presby.edu.

CFP: Spanish Golden Age and the Small College (3/15/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:21pm
Michael Joy

I invite submissions for a panel I am proposing for the 2006 MLA
conference in Philadelphia. The topic is "The Spanish Golden Age and
the Small College." The panel will center on life as the Golden Age
specialist (broadly defined to include both medievalists and
Renaissance specialists) at a smaller college or university: attracting
students, curricular and extracurricular innovations, connections
between research and teaching, and other topics of interest to the
Golden Age community. 250-word abstracts are due by March 15, 2006 to
the following address: Michael W. Joy, Department of Modern Foreign
Languages, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC 29325. E-mail address
for submissions: mjoy_at_presby.edu.

CFP: North American Society for Social Philosophy Conference (3/15/06; 8/3/06-8/5/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:20pm
Jeffrey Paris

 
TWENTY-THIRD INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE

      *

        *CALL FOR PAPERS *

(please disseminate widely)
The 23rd annual meeting of the North American Society for Social Philosophy will
be held August 3-5, 2006, at the

        *University of Victoria Victoria, B.C., Canada *

Although proposals in all areas of social philosophy are welcome, special
attention will be devoted to the theme

        *International Law and Justice*

CFP: The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar (1/16/06; 5/30/06-6/3/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:20pm
Ehawthorne03_at_aol.com

Call for Papers
=20
            The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars invites=20
abstracts for the 10th Anniversary International Conference =E2=80=9CThe Car=
ibbean=20
Woman Writer as Scholar: Imagining/Theorizing/Creating=E2=80=9D to be held M=
ay 30-June 3,=20
2006, at Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
            Sample Panel Topics:
            The Creative Theoretical
            Caribbean Feminist Theory
            The Caribbean Imaginary
            Orality and the Creative Imagination
            Imagining Progressive Futures
            One Caribbean in the Vision of Writers and Artists

CFP: The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar (1/16/06; 5/30/06-6/3/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:20pm
Ehawthorne03_at_aol.com

Call for Papers
=20
            The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars invites=20
abstracts for the 10th Anniversary International Conference =E2=80=9CThe Car=
ibbean=20
Woman Writer as Scholar: Imagining/Theorizing/Creating=E2=80=9D to be held M=
ay 30-June 3,=20
2006, at Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
            Sample Panel Topics:
            The Creative Theoretical
            Caribbean Feminist Theory
            The Caribbean Imaginary
            Orality and the Creative Imagination
            Imagining Progressive Futures
            One Caribbean in the Vision of Writers and Artists

CFP: The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar (1/16/06; 5/30/06-6/3/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:20pm
Ehawthorne03_at_aol.com

Call for Papers
=20
            The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars invites=20
abstracts for the 10th Anniversary International Conference =E2=80=9CThe Car=
ibbean=20
Woman Writer as Scholar: Imagining/Theorizing/Creating=E2=80=9D to be held M=
ay 30-June 3,=20
2006, at Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
            Sample Panel Topics:
            The Creative Theoretical
            Caribbean Feminist Theory
            The Caribbean Imaginary
            Orality and the Creative Imagination
            Imagining Progressive Futures
            One Caribbean in the Vision of Writers and Artists

CFP: Mester XXXV (2006) General Issue (1/6/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Mester Literary Journal

M E S T E R
2006 Call for Papers, General Issue
Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, seeks articles for its upcoming 35th
anniversary issue to be published in June 2006.

Our new volume will be open to any topic related to the scope of the
journal. Mester publishes critical articles, interviews, and book
reviews in the fields of Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish-American,
Brazilian, Chicano, and Latina/o literatures and linguistics. Mester
also welcomes articles in other disciplines such as Comparative
Literature, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Articles may be
written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.

CFP: English Seventeenth-Century Lyric Poetry (3/1/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Eileen Abrahams

I am soliciting proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of English
Seventeenth-Century lyric poetry for a session at the Rocky Mountain Modern
Language Association (RMMLA).

The annual meetings of the RMMLA will take place from October 12 until
October 14, 2006 in Tucson, Arizona.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words either as WORD or RTF
attachments via e-mail or via regular mail. All submissions must be
received by midnight on March 1, 2006. I'll e-mail notification of
acceptance by March 15, 2006.

Please send proposals to Eileen Abrahams at ei_at_vownet.net
or to

CFP: NeoAmericanist: Online Student Journal for American Studies (grad) (1/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
NeoAmericanist Journal for American Studies

Call for Papers

NeoAmericanist
Online Student Journal for American Studies

--------------
The editors of NeoAmericanist, an online multi/inter-disciplinary journal
for the study of America, are issuing a call for papers among interested
Undergraduate and Graduate students. We are accepting original ARTICLES as
well as book and film REVIEWS from Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level
students on the comprehensive topic of America. The submission DEADLINE fo=
r
the next issue is JANUARY 1ST 2006.

CFP: NeoAmericanist: Online Student Journal for American Studies (grad) (1/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
NeoAmericanist Journal for American Studies

Call for Papers

NeoAmericanist
Online Student Journal for American Studies

--------------
The editors of NeoAmericanist, an online multi/inter-disciplinary journal
for the study of America, are issuing a call for papers among interested
Undergraduate and Graduate students. We are accepting original ARTICLES as
well as book and film REVIEWS from Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level
students on the comprehensive topic of America. The submission DEADLINE fo=
r
the next issue is JANUARY 1ST 2006.

CFP: NeoAmericanist: Online Student Journal for American Studies (grad) (1/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
NeoAmericanist Journal for American Studies

Call for Papers

NeoAmericanist
Online Student Journal for American Studies

--------------
The editors of NeoAmericanist, an online multi/inter-disciplinary journal
for the study of America, are issuing a call for papers among interested
Undergraduate and Graduate students. We are accepting original ARTICLES as
well as book and film REVIEWS from Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level
students on the comprehensive topic of America. The submission DEADLINE fo=
r
the next issue is JANUARY 1ST 2006.

CFP: NeoAmericanist: Online Student Journal for American Studies (grad) (1/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
NeoAmericanist Journal for American Studies

Call for Papers

NeoAmericanist
Online Student Journal for American Studies

--------------
The editors of NeoAmericanist, an online multi/inter-disciplinary journal
for the study of America, are issuing a call for papers among interested
Undergraduate and Graduate students. We are accepting original ARTICLES as
well as book and film REVIEWS from Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level
students on the comprehensive topic of America. The submission DEADLINE fo=
r
the next issue is JANUARY 1ST 2006.

CFP: English Seventeenth-Century Lyric Poetry (3/1/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Eileen Abrahams

I am soliciting proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of English
Seventeenth-Century lyric poetry for a session at the Rocky Mountain Modern
Language Association (RMMLA).

The annual meetings of the RMMLA will take place from October 12 until
October 14, 2006 in Tucson, Arizona.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words either as WORD or RTF
attachments via e-mail or via regular mail. All submissions must be
received by midnight on March 1, 2006. I'll e-mail notification of
acceptance by March 15, 2006.

Please send proposals to Eileen Abrahams at ei_at_vownet.net
or to

CFP: Literature and American Studies (1/15/06; ASA, 10/12/06-10/15/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Anne F. Walker

Call for papers for the "Intersections of Location and Literature in 19th and 20th Century
American Milieus" panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (Oakland,
California, 2006). This panel focuses on relationships between place, author and text, involving
ideas of interaction that link artistic, social, physical, emotional and/or temporal spaces.
Themes can include, but are not limited to: questions of public and private; readings of the
palimpsestic; multiculturalisms; blurs and borders in physical, psychological, sexual, spiritual
and class lines; submission and resistance; the situated subject, as in we how we "act from" and

CFP: Literature and American Studies (1/15/06; ASA, 10/12/06-10/15/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Anne F. Walker

Call for papers for the "Intersections of Location and Literature in 19th and 20th Century
American Milieus" panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (Oakland,
California, 2006). This panel focuses on relationships between place, author and text, involving
ideas of interaction that link artistic, social, physical, emotional and/or temporal spaces.
Themes can include, but are not limited to: questions of public and private; readings of the
palimpsestic; multiculturalisms; blurs and borders in physical, psychological, sexual, spiritual
and class lines; submission and resistance; the situated subject, as in we how we "act from" and

CFP: Borderlines and Borderlands II (France) (12/20/05; 6/22/06-6/24/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Guillaume Cingal

International Conference « BORDERLINES and BORDERLANDS II »
organized by the Resarch Center « Espaces/Ecritures » - Université Paris
X -

June 22, 23 and 24, 2006
Université de Paris X
Salle des Conférences – Bât. B

 
                                         
                      BORDERLINES and BORDERLANDS II

CFP: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/17/06; 6/23/06-6/27/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Dr Richard Marggraf Turley

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CFP: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/17/06; 6/23/06-6/27/06)

ROMANTICISM, ENVIRONMENT, CRISIS

23-27 June 2006
Centre for Romantic Studies
University of Wales, Aberystwyth

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Romanticism, Environment, Crisis" will highlight the continuing urgency
of the Romantic text at a time when changes in our biosphere threaten to
realize Romanticism's prophetic anxieties, its darkest imaginings.

CFP: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/17/06; 6/23/06-6/27/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Dr Richard Marggraf Turley

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CFP: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/17/06; 6/23/06-6/27/06)

ROMANTICISM, ENVIRONMENT, CRISIS

23-27 June 2006
Centre for Romantic Studies
University of Wales, Aberystwyth

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Romanticism, Environment, Crisis" will highlight the continuing urgency
of the Romantic text at a time when changes in our biosphere threaten to
realize Romanticism's prophetic anxieties, its darkest imaginings.

CFP: Borderlines and Borderlands II (France) (12/20/05; 6/22/06-6/24/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Guillaume Cingal

International Conference « BORDERLINES and BORDERLANDS II »
organized by the Resarch Center « Espaces/Ecritures » - Université Paris
X -

June 22, 23 and 24, 2006
Université de Paris X
Salle des Conférences – Bât. B

 
                                         
                      BORDERLINES and BORDERLANDS II

CFP: Borderlines and Borderlands II (France) (12/20/05; 6/22/06-6/24/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Guillaume Cingal

International Conference « BORDERLINES and BORDERLANDS II »
organized by the Resarch Center « Espaces/Ecritures » - Université Paris
X -

June 22, 23 and 24, 2006
Université de Paris X
Salle des Conférences – Bât. B

 
                                         
                      BORDERLINES and BORDERLANDS II

CFP: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/17/06; 6/23/06-6/27/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Dr Richard Marggraf Turley

*********************************

CFP: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/17/06; 6/23/06-6/27/06)

ROMANTICISM, ENVIRONMENT, CRISIS

23-27 June 2006
Centre for Romantic Studies
University of Wales, Aberystwyth

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Romanticism, Environment, Crisis" will highlight the continuing urgency
of the Romantic text at a time when changes in our biosphere threaten to
realize Romanticism's prophetic anxieties, its darkest imaginings.

CFP: Nebula: Generalist/All Topics, Issue #8 (4/1/06; online publication)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
nebula_at_nobleworld.biz

Nebula invites readers to peruse its latest issue Nebula
2.4, which is now online with unrestricted access at
http://www.nobleworld.biz . You might also like to view our
archives as well as the Special Project CFP, both of which
are available through the website. Nebula is now accepting
submissions for its 8th issue, Nebula 3.1. Please visit our
website to learn more information about the journal, our
submission guidelines and policies
(www.nobleworld.biz/pages/2/index.htm).

CFP: Kairos and Film Studies (1/6/06; 2/24/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Wendy Commons

*A Symposium in Rhetoric: "Kairos & Film Studies"*

*Open to faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars*

The Federation Rhetoric Committee

of the Federation of North Texas Area Universities

Texas Woman's University - Denton, Texas

ACT Bldg. 2nd Floor
February 24, 2006

CFP: Faulkner Panels at ALA (1/15/06; ALA, 5/25/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Catherine Gunther Kodat

The William Faulkner Society will sponsor two panels at the 2006 American
Literature Association conference, to be held May 25-28 in San
Francisco. We welcome papers on all topics relating to the work of William
Faulkner, but would be especially interested in presentations addressing
Faulkner and postcoloniality; Faulkner and "things"; Faulkner and the West;
Faulkner and form.

Please send abstracts by e-mail attachment to Faulkner Society president
Anne Goodwyn Jones: agjones_at_olemiss.edu. The deadline for submissions is
January 15, 2006.

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